rusticate
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rusticate
- /ˈrʌstɪkeɪt/
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin rūsticātus, perfect active participle of rūsticor (“to live in the countryside”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), originally in the same sense. First attested in the mid-17th century. By surface analysis, rustic + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
verb rusticates · rusticating · rusticated
- To be suspended or expelled temporarily from the university, either compulsorily or voluntarily. The college rusticated him after he failed all his exams.
- To construct so as to produce jagged or heavily textured surfaces.
- To compel to live in or to send to the countryside; to cause to become rustic.
- To go to reside in the country. So alarming did the state of my finances become, that I soon realized that I must either leave the metropolis and rusticate somewhere in the country, or that I must make a complete alteration in my style of living.
Translations
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verb suspend or expel from a college or university
| Français | limoger |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | exmatrikulieren, zwangsexmatrikulieren |
verb to go to reside in the country
| Deutsch | aufs Land ziehen |
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